African-centered healing is a key practice that has often taken place in community settings in the form of ritual, ceremony, and circle.
The Seven Generations Ancestor Altar Returns
Seven Generations Ancestor Altar
Pleasure Principle: Oshun's Mirror
Just like mainstream culture has and continues to alter the iconography of Oshun, making her into a less complex, hypersexualized being as opposed to a multifaceted deity, we as a culture are doing the same when seeking pathways to expressing our sexuality and intimacy. These embodied politics, or lack thereof, don’t want to understand the nuances of being in relation with each other - physically, sexually, intimately, or anywhere in between.